Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-10-19
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 Yellow fever is raging at Tampa, Fla. Mrs. Garfield slnd daughter have gone to Europe.
 The Scoech cutter, Thistle, sailed for home yesterday. Las Vegas. New Mexico. is trying to get up dog show. A man w,il run ai,sr dollar, while . dog will follow scent. The Baltic mill, Baltic, Conn. was burned yesterday loss $l, 100000. In Milwaukee President Cleveland partook of a banquet costing Sra . plate
 Miss Ella Cleu,entine Rogers IS stump ing New York for the Henry George party.
 Rotest Garrett, late president of the Baltimore q Ohio railroad, is reported to be insane.
 The funeral of the late Minister Man. ming was held fom the Trinity chapel New York yesterday. Rev. Thomas K. Beckner has accepted the nomination on the greenback ticket tor secretary of state of New York. Good telegraph operators are offered by the Mstkie~iets- Barker syndicate $aoo per month for their services in China. 90 says an eastern exchange. Miss Ethel Spsague, daughter of Mra Kate Chase Sprague, and ersnddaughter of the late Chief Justice Chase. is pre- paling for her debut on the theatrical stage.
 In single ward in Philadelphia there are 500 cases oi typhoid fever The disease is attributed to the defective sewerage system of the city. which is chiefly on the surface. The remains oi the late General Jud- son Fitzpatrick have arrived in New York from AspinvalL The body will be laid to rest m the United States ceme- tary at West Point. Rev. David R. Kerr. D. D.. editor oi the Uniied Presbyterian. and one of the foremost preachers of his church, died in Prtsburg. on the I4,h inst. after . prolonged illness Excited citizens of Minneapolis burned in efigy the editee of the Minneapolis Tribune because he criticized Cleve- lands administration during the time oi his visit to that city.
 An attempt to rob tram near Fl Paso last week did not prove success. The door of he mail Car was blown open with a bomb. when the express agent shot two robber, killing them almost in- stantly.
 Governor Waterman, of California, has designated thu. secnnd "Wednesday of each month as pardon day. and on these days all applications for pardon and commissions of sentence wlll be heard.
 Thomas Wright, New Mexico stock man, who took se:ond premium at the Albuquerque far ln the cowboy sourna = ment, was shot and killed by Mexican last Friday. He shot simultaneously with the Mexican, killing him also.
 The Matador Land and Cattle com pany, incorporated in Scotland, with a capital of $a,ooo,ooo, has been refused charter to do business in Texas. At torney-General Hogg decides that to grant the charter would be clearly re- pugnant to public interests.
 It is said that the plant which pro duces the licorice root of commerce (Glycyfrhiza galhra) ~ill grow almost anywhere in the little valleys and flats of Nevada without irrigation or cukva- tion. There is an indigenous plant of the same species that grows wild every where on the hills.
 The president has appointed Tbad- deus C. Pond, of Chippewa Falls, Wis consin George Stoneman, of Los An geles, California, and Theodore Cook, of Cincinnati. Ohio; commissioners to examine and report upon two sections of the railroad and telegraph line con- structed by the Central Pacific Railroad